Unstable Aesthetics provides a thorough and scholarly examination of current and historical video game art modding with a keen understanding of the poetics of the genre generated through both materiality and audience engagement. Abstraction is at the core of Lohmeyer's investigations - pulsing, perceptual spaces made to produce bodily affect.

Gabrielle Jennings, Associate Professor, Graduate Art, ArtCenter College of Design, US

From Mario Clouds and Ars Doom to Velvet Strike and San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam, Eddie Lohmeyer's Unstable Aesthetics offers a new perspective-or rather, a glitchy anamorphic angle-on the concept of game art through a deeply material analysis of both videogame technology and the experience of playing games in galleries, museums, biennials, and festivals. Moving deftly between PRG ROMs and BSP trees on one hand and media theory and object-oriented feminism on the other, Lohmeyer shows exactly how artists' mods not only expose and expand the capacities of game engines, but also change the ways we play.

Patrick LeMieux, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Digital Media, University of California, Davis, USA